LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Superintendent E. Mcquillan, of the Coast Life-Saving Service. Awarded a Pair of Binoculars
Superintendent E Mcquillan of the Coast Life-Saving Service Awarded A Pair of Binoculars. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 725.)
(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
The Rig Support Vessel Stream Truck
Special Vellunn for Doctor's services in severe conditions Aspecial Doctor's Thanks on Vellum has been awarded to Doctor Peter Fay of Kirkwall for his outstanding courage and determination following a service by Kirkwall's Severn...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
Category: Awards
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—At 8.10 A.M. on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...
Category: Services
Letters
Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
Category: Correspondence
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...
Category: Annual Reports
Life first
Selflessness
We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...
Category: Articles